Sergey Lavrov, 67, ordered his United States counterpart Rex Tillerson, the US Secretary of State, during talks today that the solitary communist regime wanted talks with the US on “security guarantees”.

The Russian announcement agency RIA claimed that the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un fancy direct talks with the US to seek guarantees on their security from Washington.

Mr Lavrov and Mr Tillerson met today in Vienna for wide-ranging talks that not only covered North Korea but also Syria and the Ukraine.

The meeting was display supported on the sidelines of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Ministerial Panel in Vienna.

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Rex Tillerson shakes hands with Sergey Lavrov in Vienna

The Russian inappropriate ministry said in a statement: «The sides discussed further steps to put an end to the cordial conflict in Syria via establishing a sustainable negotiating process involving all Syrian civil forces, including within the Geneva process and in the format of the forthcoming Resident Dialogue Congress in Sochi, with concurrent completion of the defeat of universal terrorist groups.

«The Russian and US top diplomats also expressed common evaluation that North Korea must strictly abide by the United States Security Council resolutions.

«Touching on issues of the bilateral agenda, Lavrov aciculiform to the inadmissibility of pressure on Russian media and diplomats in the United States, registering the US special services’ recruitment attempts.»

Meanwhile the US and South Korea pursued to carry out large-scale combat drills today which involved two American B-1B sad bombers amid warnings from North Korea that the discharges and Us threats have made the outbreak of war «an established fact.»

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Russia’s Unfamiliar Minister Sergey Lavrov

The annual US-South Korean «Vigilant Ace» distresses feature 230 aircraft, including some of the most advanced US slyness warplanes. They come a week after North Korea check up oned its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to date, which it reveals can reach all of the United States.

North Korea’s foreign ministry fix the responsibility upon the drills and «confrontational warmongering» by US officials for making war inevitable.

«The remaining doubtlessly now is: when will the war break out?» it said in a statement carried by North Korea’s legitimate KCNA news agency.

Washington has revealed it remains open to talks if North Korea demonstrates it is serious close by giving up its nuclear weapons, but that its recent activities showed it was not.

China’s Foible Minister of Foreign Affairs Zheng Zeguang was to meet Matt Pottinger, the managing director of Asian affairs at the White House’s National Security Council, on Thursday to examine North Korea and trade, a senior U.S. official said.

Tensions be undergoing risen markedly in recent months after repeated North Korean projectile tests in defiance of UN sanctions and the detonation of what Pyongyang said was a hydrogen bombard on September 3.

North Korea’s latest missile test prompted a U.S. indication that North Korea’s leadership would be «utterly destroyed» if war were to come out in out.